190 THE POLYNESIA N. M blowing the bellows, stirring the firp i sources of vice-royal- ty however, but that the attention of travellers. For the former," !iit tho of New Spain. After certain, ing coals, and performing the beneficial commerce in this respect yet other dut says Mr. Frazer, " there quite a craze jthe division of the Mexican Republic into a 1 i. oi a blacksmith's ussistunt. When lttr don-'feder- al states the population here white is your only color for a States, the whole of California exist. Humboldt iiiiisucu, iiv wviii iu iiiu piuprictor key, and you scarcely meet any person of !wns erected into what was termed a " Old California at 9000. At the present his manufactory, and asked him li'm,', time it does not exceed 14,000 or 15,000. lie his workmen per pod. man or woman, mounted , ritory," which differed from a State in gave ,,Tirci in- eds has less than 300 or an altina," answered on any tiling else than these spotless ;lhis, that it did not have an elective gov-quadrup- The capital, Loreta, pecks Muller. except, indeed, the more ernor or legislature, but was under the habitants. La Paz, together with San ry well," replied the Czar, ! lav'e population earned eighteen nltinas." JMuller fit, warlike classes, who despise anything un- - immediate control of the general govern-de- r Antonio, contains, perhaps, a -- eighteen ducats, offered them to pctcr gov-th- e of 2000. the grade of an Arab steed. Most of ment of Mexico, which appointed its told that ho could not give California, was discov- him, a work, learned professions prefer the meeker ernor, under the name of commandant-anima- l, New, or Upper like his inujesty less per pood. pctcr 151-- 2 Cobrillo, a r and so do all the ladies ; so that general, and all the subordinate ollicers. ered about the year by sod. Keep your ducats," said was he, "f the number in use is very great ; and as ;In the year 1630, a revolution broke out Spanish navigator. Part of the coast nnt wruinrhf. hrtfpr than nnv rs , V ""itr M women of the higher ranks seldom move jiu Upper California. On the 7th of No-witho- ut visited by Sir Francis Drake in 1578. give ine wnai you woum give to nnotht. a multitude of attendants .simi-- ! ember, the country was declared to be No permanent European settlements were want to buy a pair of shoes, of which in At the larly mounted, when such a visit is undo independent of Mexico. effected till about the year 1770. That great need." same time lit $r oc- ed him his shoes, which had been the house of a neighbor, the braying The name of California was for nearly portion of Uppci California at present once n at ded, und were again full of hol(8. concert becomes intolerable. These ass- 200 years exclusively applied to the great cupied by the missions and settlers, is accepted the eighteen altinas, mid 1 is about live hundred English miles in length, lU es are, believe, of a particular breed, peninsula which now termed Old or himself a pair of new shoes, which the breath from the sea to the first Imt and fetch very high prices from forty to Lower California, and which is arbitrarily and to show with much pleasure, saying, "jt, aver- fifty pounds sterling being no uncommon bounded on the north by a line drawn range of hills may be stated at an I earned with the sweat of my brow." sum for one of great size, good blood, and from the gulf of California to the shore of age of 40 miles, which will give an area One of the bars of iron forged Lv P fine paces. They are magnificently ca- the Pacific. After the discovery and set- of 20,000 square miles. This, however, the Great, and authenticated by his mark parisoned, and every one of the poor ani- tlement by the Spaniards of the country is but a small part of Upper Calfornia as still to bo seen at Istria, in the forge of), similar is mals has its nostrils slit, a practice preva- to the north of the peninsula, and which the whole country extending to the ltio lor. Another bar preserve the cabinet of curiosities at St. lent also in Persia, and which is said to was also named California, as being part Colorado, and to an undefined limit north- PctersW make them longer winded. Heaven of the same tract of coast, and inhabited ward, is included in its territory. The VVOli JACK. knows their wind is long enough when by the some race of people, the distinc- whole extent of Upper California, proper- The following account is In they begin to bray. The rage for black tive appellations of Upper and Lower, or ly so called, presents a supcrlices equal to given Rev. Leigh Richmond, as having beer slaves here is quite as universal as that New and Old, California became necessa- many of the most extensive and powerful lated by a minister in a meeting ot the for white donkeys, and, judging from ap- ry, and have since beei. universally ap- kingdoms of Europe. This immense re- isli and Foreign Bible Society: ; Low- gion, by the 44 pearances, I should suppose that the ug- plied the peninsula being termed except the districts occupied A drunkard was one day staccrir- - lier they are, the more they are valued er, as being in a lower degree of latitude, Roman Catholic missions on the coast, is drink on the brink of the sea. liislitilt,( like an Isle of Skyc terrier, whose beau- and Old from its earlier settlement. possessed by scattered tribes of Indians, by him, three years old, being very (u- nsolicited ty consists in its especial and perfect ugli- Old California was discovered in the and has been hitherto but little known. him for something to tut. i ness. These dark beauties, male and fe- year 1534, by a squadron fitted out for All travellers have been struck with the miserable lather, conscious of his pou and the criminal cause of it, in a kinc male, conic chiefly from Madagascar and the purposes of discovery by Cortes. It beauty and fertility of the country. In rage, occasioned by his intemperance, Zanzebar, and are supplied for the most was not, however, till manv years had many places, indeed on the coast,' the despair, hurled the little innocent into elapsed, and fruitless sea-win- ds and fogs part oy tne imaun oi Muscat a very many attempts at blast the foliage of the sea, and made off with himself. Tliej in all in- staunch and worthy ally of ours, in whose colonization been made, that a permanent trees exposed situations. More little sufferer, finding a Moating plank lv hands nearly all the trade rests. They settlement was effected by the Spaniards, land, nothing of the kind is seen. tk New side on the water, clung to it. The thick-lippe- are all d, have broad faces, high jT!ie zeal of the Jesuit missionaries at California," says Humboldt, is as well soon wnf.ed him and the plank into the; cheek-bone- man-of-wa- r, bv c s, exceedingly depressed noses, length overcame every obstacle, and pos-sma- ll watered and fertile as Old California is 4A British passing peaked chins, staring white eyes, session was taken of the country about arid and stony. The climate is much covered tiie plank and child; and a sai. ut the risk of his own life, plunged iuti and atrociously black skins. Here 'the close of the seventeenth centurv. more mild than in the same latitude on sea, and brought him on board. He c( vou find them greatly preferred to all oth- - jTho whole country explored by the Jesu- - the eastern coast of the new continent." inform them little more than that his i.;. ers as servants, both m the Harem, and as far north as the 28th degree of The country abounds in trees, which ji, was Jack They gave him the iisimt for other offices. The streets swarm with 'north latitude, was thinly peopled by nu-the- m, urow not only in detached groups or Poor Jack. He grew up on board that d and their glossy skins, fat shining jmcrous tribes, more or less stationary in clumps on the plains and vaJlies, but ol-w- ar, behaved well, and gained the loit faces, and gay apparel, lead at once to their rude villages or encampments, differ- - spread out into extensive forests. The all the officers and men. He became indi-geneo- departim the conclusion that they fare well ; a fact ing very little in their general habits and country abounds with animals both us officer of the sick and wounded sufficiently notorious from the well known condition, yet sufficiently marked to be and imported. The feathered During an action of the late war, an man a d; partiality of Turks, in common with most distinguished by fixed names, and speak- tribes both of land and water are found came under his care, nearly in state. He was all attention to the sufft; Orientals towards their slaves ; and the ing different languages or different dia- in very great abundance. California is stranger, but could not save his life. impudent swagger, and not lects of the same. The best informed of watered by numerous rivers; and 44 unfrequently there The aged stranger was dying, nnd t: insolent language of the dark rogues as the Jesuits believed that there were but is nothing in the configuration of the sur- addressed this kind young officer: 'for they pass you in the street, leaves no three languages decidedly differing from face of the country to forbid the eternal great attention you have shown me, It doubt of their being the spoiled favorites 'one another.